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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a luxury to be able to study whatever you are passionate about for learnings sake without having to care about employment outcomes. [/quote]

My daughter is in NYC with thousands of kids studying dance, acting, musical theatre at places like NYU, Juilliard, Fordham with Alvin Ailey, all the schools at the top ballet companies.  That’s just a few of the schools.

It’s not that unusual for these kids to study something without knowing what kind on income they might have.  [/quote]

Years ago I roomed with a woman who had a SUNY dance degree. Her source of income was as an admin via temp agency. She lamented her dance degree. Another woman at a party who was also a dancer lamented that nobody was interested in her dancing but liked her cheesecakes.
 
In NYC the top dance school is SAB which is a children's professional program. NYU, Juilliard and Fordham don't produce dancers who can actually make a living from dancing. And most of the musicians and actors from those schools end up as real estate agents.[/quote]

Dance isn't really humanities, its ARTS.
Humanities: History, Politics, Literature, Languages etc
Arts: Theater, Dance, Sculpture, etc[/quote]

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